PREFACE. 
For their first introduction to the public, these bashful 
papers are indebted to the Times of India. For courage 
to re-appear in another dress, they are indebted to “the 
fascinating beams of a simper,” as the biographer of 
Onoocool Chunder Mookerjee beautifully expresses it, 
which the Author thought he detected on the kind 
countenance of that public. For their subject and in- 
spiration, they are indebted to the glorious forests of 
North Canara on the west coast of India. 
EH A. 
